| Zod95 said: Handheld hardware sales by year: 2001: 20M (considering GBA sold 80M in 4 years) 2002: 20M (considering GBA sold 80M in 4 years) 2003: 20M (considering GBA sold 80M in 4 years) 2004: 20M (considering GBA sold 80M in 4 years) 2005: 21M 2006: 30M 2007: 42M 2008: 44M 2009: 47M 2010: 30M 2011: 30M 2012: 25M 2013: 21M 2014: 13M 2015: 10M 2016: 6M (will it end at 7M ?) The market is declining for 7 consecutive years with 2 major slumps in the last 3 years. And if it wasn't for Sony creating a new segment (with PSP), the handheld market would probably be declining for more than 10 years. The handheld market is gone. |
Real numbers, yeah! Thanks ^^
OP seems to completely ignore the 240M previous generation and only focus on older and smaller generations. Yes, if you sell 10M in 2014, 20M in 2015 and then 10M in 2016, you have a decline. Saying "Look, it sells just as much as in 2014, so no decline!" is just wrong and shows a really bad and partial reading of sales numbers.
